Dimensions
130 x 197 x 18mm
How do we exercise our will? How do we control our behaviour and make sense of the world around us? Do our genes and environments determine all that goes on in our brains, or do we create ourselves through what we believe and how we behave?
This book charts the brain's mind, progressing from single nerve cells to co-operative nerve cell assemblies to the emergence of complex brain patterns. By drawing on new developments in brain imaging and theories of chaos and nonlinear dynamics, we see how brains create intentions and meanings. Here are new ways to answer age-old philosophical questions about self-determination and individual responsibility.
Freeman's novel synthesis of neuroscience and philosophy shows that the power to choose is an essential and inalienable property of brains, and that it is the foundation for the development and flourishing of individuals and societies.
